Organizations that are supporting the statement:
Teachers Unite, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence, New York Collective of Radical Educators, Mothers Against Mayoral Control, It Is Time, Grassroots Education Movement GEM, The Purple Circle Day Care Center

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Council Member Bill de Blasio has just issued a report that calls for the DOE to spend more money on teaching and less on standardized testing.
Read the report here.
Read the source list.

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The Alliance for Childhood has issued a report on the need for creative play, not testing or test prep, in kindergarten.
+ Read the flier
+ Read the 8-page summary.

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Stop K-2 standardized testing!
Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg are considering a policy to bring mandated standardized testing to kindergarten through 2nd grade. We must stop them!

Sign the online petition today, and pass on the link.

"Keeping Accountability Systems Accountable,"
Martha Foote, Jan. 2007

Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Sam Dillon, New York Times

As Test-Taking Grows, Test-Makers Grow Rarer
David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Principals Face Review in Education Overhaul
Elissa Gootman, New York Times

"No Child Left Behind: The Test"
Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools

National Education Association:
More information against NCLB.

"Test Question No. 1: Why Have These Tests?"
NYT article on one of Time Out's strongest activists: Jane R. Hirschmann